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I actually still don't think I own any at all.
Ok, but when you do, you can get to the spreadsheet, right? :-)
Do we have to keep track of the rolls too? Because there's no way I'm going to catch up :p And I haven't been keeping track.
No, I think just when you get a property is fine.
Alright thanks. More like if I get one.
Pacific Avenue Completion (finally!)
Task: Read a book from the standalone shelf
How it fits: Standalone shelf
Date read: 12/7/16
Rating: 4 stars
Review: This was a cute little book :) I wouldn't normally have read it, but I'm trying to keep up with Ally Condie's books, so I decided I'd give it a shot. It's a nice break from the normal books I read :p I liked the way (view spoiler) That was a shock! Sad that Miles felt left out though :(
Rolled 6+2=8Start: Pacific Avenue
End: Boardwalk (Amanda owns. Oh jeez this one's 5 books rent :/ I know this off by heart)
Task: Read 5 books from the DNF shelf
This is the 3rd game where I'm currently sitting on this spot!
Why do I always land on such massive rent spots :/ I don't own any!
Wait you said Amanda isn't playing anymore, so I only need to read 3 books and I can actually own a property!
My current book isn't on that same DNF shelf, but it has still been tagged as didn't finish. So does that count?
Yes, Ansnda isn't playing. Yea for you!!
Alright thanks. So I just need to wait for my question to be answered in the Q&A thread.
First Boardwalk Book
Date read: 16/7/16
Rating: 5 stars
Task: Read a book from the DNF shelf
How it fits: DNF Shelf
Review: Okay so the one thing that may have lowered my rating was the love triangle, but (view spoiler) And the plot twist at around 90%!!!!!! Just woah. I had to go up to the bookstore before I finished to buy Cruel Crown and Glass Sword because I couldn't get enough. I'm glad I'm one of the people that liked it rather than one of the people that had to DNF it. I kind of put off reading this one for a while, even though people told me that once I started I would really like it, and they were right! *cough cough Wobble team* :p I'm really glad I read it, even though the obvious YA-ness of it exasperated me at times, what with the (view spoiler) but apart from that I really loved it. I found aspects of The Young Elites, The Selection and even The Hunger Games in this book, which are all really different :p
Second Boardwalk Book
Task: Read a book from the DNF shelf
How it fits: DNF shelf
Date read: 20/7/16
Rating: 5 stars
Review: I actually really enjoyed this book! I liked the fact that there wasn't much romance, and what was (view spoiler) I liked how original the story was, and how even though it was sort of dystopian, it wasn't typical. I like the background, and the pages seemed to turn themselves. I found myself constantly flicking back a chapter just to see how many pages there were in that chapter because I felt like I'd just started a new chapter. It was really good, and it surprised me. I was kind of expecting mediocre, but I enjoyed this :) I like the whole idea of (view spoiler) One thing I didn't quite like was (view spoiler) I found it totally freaky how (view spoiler) and (view spoiler) But I'm pleased that (view spoiler)
Wow I actually own a property now! My first one! And it's the biggest :p Updating the spreadsheet too.Third Boardwalk Book
Task: Read a book from the DNF shelf
How it fits: DNF shelf
Date read: 20/7/16
Rating: 4 stars
Review: The first half of this book was really boring, but the second half picked up. It was kind of repetitive, but still pretty good. I still hate Cassie's selfishness, and her indecisiveness, and the way she's the strongest witch around even though she had no idea a while ago that she even was a witch. Just rather annoying, how that works. But I was surprised about (view spoiler) Of course (view spoiler) I'm kind of confused how (view spoiler) Doesn't make too much sense. Oh well. It's just a book. I thought the (view spoiler)
Rolled 4+4=8Start: Boardwalk
End: Chance
Chance Roll: 5+3=8
Chance task: Go back 3 spaces
Actual end: Income Tax (freaking hate the spacing of that Chance spot!)
Task: Read a book with a poor/rich character, or someone who works in a bank.
Maddison wrote: "Wow I actually own a property now! My first one! And it's the biggest :p Updating the spreadsheet too.Third Boardwalk Book
Task: Read a book from the DNF shelf
How i..."
I haven't read any of the new books in the Secret Circle series or the Vampire Diaries series ever since they brought in the ghostwriter(s) after the original author stopped writing on any of her series around the early 2000s (17 years later, and I'm still waiting for that damn final book in her Night World series, gyah!), though all her stuff was basically my teenage years (I probably read them all at least a half dozen times). Is the new stuff any good (anything past #3 in the Secret Circle series, and anything past #4 in the Vampire Diaries series)?
Also, if you're interested, I know the whole story behind why L.J. Smith no longer writes the stuff being published under that name, because I was that much of a fangirl that I researched it when suddenly "her" new books started popping up, but I won't bore you with the details if you're not interested. Again, my freaking teenage years, period (well, between her and Christopher Pike, at least).
Oh, and also, congrats on property ownership. I was rootin' for you the whole way. ^_^
Why thanks vamp haha. Uhhh it's definitely a different style and not as good I would say but I hadn't read any of the new stuff either so I restarted the series. I didn't know shed done the same with vampire diaries!! that sucks.yeah I'm interested in the story!
Maddison wrote: "Why thanks vamp haha. Uhhh it's definitely a different style and not as good I would say but I hadn't read any of the new stuff either so I restarted the series. I didn't know shed done the same wi..."I can completely understand how they continued Vampire Diaries, because that fourth book ended with more open plot lines than any of her other books, even the early-in-a-series ones. Secret Circle was a trilogy that had a very definite ending, though, so it'd be interesting to read the ghostwritten books, if just to see how they did it. I'm just afraid that I'll read the new ones, hate them, and it'll ruin my opinion of the original ones. :(
Oops, almost forgot. The way I heard it, she stopped writing (never did find out the reason behind that, unfortunately, though I know she didn't die), but the first two series she had written (Vampire Diaries and Secret Circle) had been written for the company under a weird contract, where she didn't own the intellectual property, nor her name attached to said property, so they were free to publish as many books as they wanted in those series, using her name but not her writing, after she quit. I think she switched companies after that, which is why Night World, Dark Visions, and Forbidden Games are all safe. Mind you, this is just what I heard, but I've seen different people posting about it, and I could've sworn she said something herself once on her site (because people were complaining that she had the time to write all these new Diaries and Circle books, but she couldn't get her lazy butt up to finishing the final Night World book that was promised to us in the spring of 1999). Seems fairly likely, since her works have gotten a LOT of attention since The Vampire Diaries television show has become such a huge success (everything but her earliest books have been re-released with pretty new covers), yet those are the only two series that have gotten new books, even though Circle had a very definite ending but Night World ended on an unresolved cliffhanger from hell. *shrugs*
Wow she was 1 book off finishing Night World?? That's so frustrating!And Dark Visions and Forbidden Game are both AMAZING!
Maddison wrote: "Wow she was 1 book off finishing Night World?? That's so frustrating!And Dark Visions and Forbidden Game are both AMAZING!"
Yeah, I know. She was doing this thing with the last four books of the series, leading up to the year 2000. There were four "wild powers" that were going to save the world then, and each book introduced one. The first three were soooooooo good, and then, at the back of the third book it said "Look for Strange Fate in your local bookstores in spring, 1999". Aaaaaaannnnnndddddddd...... Next year, the wait will be old enough to vote. >_<
And the Dark Visions trilogy was my favorite series of hers, with Night World a kinda close second. I probably re-read it the most. The end of the Forbidden Games always makes me cry, though. :(
Wow that's so mean! Why did she stop? Like why couldn't she publish on Wattpad or whatever?I've gotta update the spreadsheet :p Doing that now.
Maddison wrote: "Wow that's so mean! Why did she stop? Like why couldn't she publish on Wattpad or whatever?I've gotta update the spreadsheet :p Doing that now."
No clue. Her excuses were usually along the lines of she wrote too much (I think she gave a page count of over 700 at one point), and she was editing it to make it smaller no matter how many times fans yelled at her to just release the whole thing already. Personally, I would've preferred 700 pages, because then everything could actually be resolved. I think she built up and built up and built up and then finally, at the very end, she... had not a damn thing. She probably has, like, 8 pages of scribbled notes on random non-note paper type things (like three napkins and the back of a Chinese take out menu or something) and two paragraphs of an introductory chapter and that's it, but she didn't want to let anybody down so she pretended otherwise. I've basically given up on her ever publishing it (the Amazon page has the release date set as 2030).
Haha even Amazon's being silly about it? I suppose it is like 17 years overdue. I can't believe she would do that to her fans though. I won't be reading that series then. It'd kill me.
Maddison wrote: "Haha even Amazon's being silly about it? I suppose it is like 17 years overdue. I can't believe she would do that to her fans though. I won't be reading that series then. It'd kill me."It's not Amazon's doing, I don't think. It's had it up for a big chunk of the 17 years, but the release date keeps getting pushed back. I think either she or her publisher is doing it because they don't want to admit it's never coming out yet. And the series is worth the read, even without the final book, because each one could almost be read as a stand alone (except for basic rules set down and characters from the past occasionally popping up or events getting a passing mention). The stories themselves are good enough even without knowing how the final apocalypse goes down, because you never get much information about it so instead of an "OH NO! NOW I'LL NEVER KNOW HOW IT ENDS!" it's more an a "well dang, I would've liked to know how it ends, but oh well, nine enjoyable books is better than none." Probably the only reason I'm even as annoyed as I am is because I was reading them the second they came out for numbers 7, 8, and 9, so it not being completed was a big blow and I've been waiting the whole 17+ years. Going in now, I'd probably be a little miffed, but shrug it off and read something else afterwards.
Haha I like talking with you because you write decent paragraphs each time :) Sorry for the fact that I don't.I think I actually may have read the first 1 or 2 but then had to return it. It was years ago though.
Maddison wrote: "Haha I like talking with you because you write decent paragraphs each time :) Sorry for the fact that I don't.I think I actually may have read the first 1 or 2 but then had to return it. It was y..."
I only really write out decent paragraphs because I talk so much. ^_^ It gets annoying in person, or so I've been told. *laughs* But yeah, no worries.
As for the Night World series, the first book was Secret Vampire, the second was Daughters of Darkness, and the third one was Spellbinder, if any of those are ringing any bells. If you click on any of those links, pretty much all the original covers were very similar in style, and all the re-releases looked like this one: Night World, No. 1. I'm starting to think I know way too much about these YA books from the mid-to-late 90s...
Haha it's because they're by LJ Smith so they're awesome.
Income Tax Completion
Date read: 29/7/16
Rating: 5 stars
Task: Income Tax
How it fits: Rich characters in book
Review: (view spoiler) I so do not remember that from the first time I read this book! I love it though haha. It's very graphic and gory, and detailed within that, which I really enjoyed. I liked the idea, that justice to bullies is deserved, but is hard to dish out. (view spoiler) I'd forgotten about that too. Also the lack of romance was nice, and that the most feelings she got was from (view spoiler) Enjoyed this book, as I rated it 5 stars this time around rather than the initial 4.
Rolled 6+3=9Start: Income Tax
End: States Avenue (Vamp owns)
Task: Read 2 books from the Maybe shelf
Hey ladies, I think I am done with this game. It just got too confusing with so many players leaving. Thanks for the fun game!
I'd be up for that! Should we ask for a new game so the thread is clean & someone can do a new tracking post?
Do u want to stick with this option or the new option?
I prefer this one because it's easier to find books for, and because I don't read books specifically for this challenge. I just read what I've got planned and hope it fits in.
I want to keep playing with you guys though.
Awesome. So who else wants to keep playing? And what version?
Actually you two, I'm going to have to bow out. I can't start another game right now. Sorry...I think it's just the two of you.
Wow really? Alright. From so many to so little. Vamp, you still wanna play?
Actually, I think I gotta pass too, sorry. I'm trying to cut back on my TCF stuff, see if not having "required reading" (according to my head) each month cuts back on some of my stress. Maybe some day I can start doing all of it again, but not just yet.
Yeah that's true. I'm fine with that :) I just need to cut back on my buddy reads because that's what gets me.
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Read any book of 200 pages or more
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